Over 100 volunteers including 30 divers are continuing to search a lake in Athlone for a missing angler from Co. Armagh.

Hopes are fading that a missing father-of-three will be found alive after a fishing trip in Lough Ree turned to tragedy, claiming the life of his friend and leaving another man fighting for survival.

The tragedy involving three anglers on Lough Ree is a reminder to everyone who enjoys our lakes, rivers or seas of how very unforgiving, how very threatening adverse weather can be.

Search efforts to locate a man missing in Lough Ree, Co Westmeath have been called off for the night after an incident involving three men earlier.